Ross Gudgeon’s Image<\/p>\n
Ross Gudgeon (Australia) reveals the exquisite forest-like structure of a cauliflower coral from the inside out in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia.<\/p>\n
Ross is always looking for ways to photograph from unusual perspectives.<\/p>\n
He used an extended macro wide lens, which is an underwater version of a probe.<\/p>\n
He carefully threaded the lens between the coral branches. Then he backlit the scene with two flashes.<\/p>\n
Soft corals are filter-feeding invertebrates found in the Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n
Unlike other corals, soft corals do not use photosynthesis for sustenance.<\/p>\n
Instead, each polyp-tipped branch has feathery tentacles that comb water currents for floating phytoplankton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ross Gudgeon’s Image Ross Gudgeon (Australia) reveals the exquisite forest-like structure of a cauliflower coral from the inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,3741,82,263,52930,52929,52927,52928,52926],"class_list":["post-83461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nature-photography","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-competition","tag-wildlife-images","tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","tag-wildphoto","tag-wpy-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}